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WHERE    IS    GOD 
IN   THE   EUROPEAN  WAR? 


Where  is  God 

in  the 

European  War 


BY 

HON.  ROBERT  L.  OWEN 

UNITED    STATES    SENATOR   OF   OKLAHOMA 

CHAIRMAN    OF    THE    UNITED    STATES    SENATE   COMMITTEE 
ON   BANKING  AND   CURRENCY 


NEW  YORK 

THE  CENTURY  CO. 

1919 


Copyright,  1919,  by  Robert  L.  Owe* 


WHERE    IS    GOD 
IN   THE    EUROPEAN  WARi" 


WHERE    IS    GOD    IN 
THE    EUROPEAN   WAR? 

ON  the  floor  of  the  United 
States  Senate  recently  a  dis- 
tinguished Senator  described  the 
frightful  tragedies  of  the  European 
battle-fields,  the  terrorism  pervading 
Europe,  the  slaughter  of  women  and 
children,  the  wholesale  destruction  of 
life,  and  in  a  burst  of  despair  the 
Senator  cried  out: 

"Where  is  God?" 

From  many  quarters  has  come  this 
despairing  cry: 

"Where  is  God?     Why  does  He 

permit  His  children  to  slaughter  one 
[i] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

another  with  flame  and  sword;  with 
poisonous  gas ;  with  bomb  and  shrap- 
nel?" 

God  needs  no  exculpation  at  the 
hands  of  mortal  man. 

Men,  however,  do  need  to  under- 
stand the  majesty  of  the  laws  of 
God  and  that  men  cannot  violate 
them  in  the  slightest  degree.  Men 
only  exemplify  the  operation  of  these 
laws. 

The  laws  of  God  are  spiritual  as 
well  as  material,  and  govern  the 
spiritual,  moral,  ethical  world  with 
the  same  absolute  precision  as  in 
the  material  world. 

These  moral  laws  can  no  more  be 
disregarded  with  impunity  than  the 
law  of  gravity  which  holds  the  earth 
in  its  path  around  the  sun.  The 
spiritual  and  moral  law  is  perfectly 
consistent  with  liberty.  Man  is  not 

[2] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

an  automaton;  he  is  a  spirit  with 
powers  divine,  endowed  with  the 
knowledge  of  right  and  wrong. 

If  saint  or  sinner  step  from  a 
precipice,  he  does  not  violate,  he 
exemplifies  the  law  of  gravity,  and 
if  he  murder  he  exemplifies  the  moral 
law  in  the  evil  results  which  follow. 

Under  the  moral  law  of  God,  evil 
consequences  always  ensue  if  man 
violate  that  which  he  knows  to  be 
right.  He  need  not  be  learned;  he 
need  not  be  able  to  read  or  write, 
to  know  what  is  right  and  what  is 
wrong. 

The  laws  of  man  are  based  on  the 
laws  of  God,  and  the  commandments 
of  men  not  to  lie,  or  steal,  or  covet, 
or  kill  are  based  upon  the  everlast- 
ing fact  that  evil  consequences  en- 
sue with  certainty  when  any  of  these 
things  are  done.  The  laws  of  God 

[3] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

give  liberty  of  choice,  and  good  or 
bad  results  inevitably  follow  accord- 
ing as  the  choice  be  good  or  bad. 
William  II  and  his  war  lords  have 
been  violating  the  Ten  Command- 
ments of  Moses  and  exemplifying 
the  millions  of  evil  consequences 
which  under  the  moral  laws  of  God 
flow  therefrom. 

THE  LAWS  OF  MOSES  VIOLATED.      THE 
LAWS   OF   GOD   EXEMPLIFIED 

1.  "Thou  shalt  have  no  other  gods 
before  me." 

This  law  has  been  violated  by 
William  II,  who  worships  Material 
Force,  "the  good  old  German  Gott," 
Thor,  the  god  of  battles,  with  his 
mighty  hammer;  but  the  violation 
of  this  Commandment  brings  evil 
consequences  and  exemplifies  the  di- 
vine law. 

[4] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

2.  Moses  forbade  men  to  commit 
iniquity,  and  promised  punishment 
upon  those  guilty  of  "iniquity,"  and 
upon  their  "children  unto  the  third 
and  fourth  generation." 

William  II  and  his  captains  have 
taught  their  soldiers  and  people 
"iniquity,"  the  violation  of  plighted 
faith,  the  breaking  of  treaties  as 
"scraps  of  paper,"  the  disregard  of 
the  civilized  Hague  conventions  and 
of  their  solemn  covenants  with  other 
nations;  have  taught  organized  war 
and  murder  for  profit,  the  slaughter 
of  innocents  as  "terrorism" — "in- 
iquity" on  "iniquity." 

The  evil  consequences  are  certain 
for  violations  of  this  Commandment, 
and  are  now  falling  on  William  II, 
his  soldiers,  and  his  people  in  terrible 
exemplification  of  God's  moral  laws. 

3.  "Thou  shalt  not  take  the  name 

[5] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

of  the  Lord  thy  God  in  vain;  for 
the  Lord  will  not  hold  him  guiltless 
that  taketh  his  name  in  vain." 

William  II  has  more  blasphemous- 
ly taken  the  name  of  the  Lord  in 
vain  than  any  ruler  in  the  world;  he 
pretends  to  speak  for  God  as  His 
agent  or  representative  on  earth, 
and  has  declared  God  a  partner  of 
his  own  wickedness.  He  and  his 
associates  are  reaping  the  results. 

4.  The  Commandment  to  rest  one 
day  in   seven   is   necessary   to   the 
welfare  of  man,  and  this  Command- 
ment can  be  violated,  but  evil  follows. 

5.  "Honor    thy  father   and    thy 
mother;  that  thy  days  may  be  long 
upon  the  land  which  the  Lord  thy 
God  giveth  thee." 

This  Commandment  is  vital  to 
human  welfare.  It  can  be  violated, 
but  it  is  a  Commandment  based  upon 

[6] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN   WAR? 

the  law  of  God  which  visits  a  penalty 
upon  those  who  do  not  honor  the 
father  and  the  mother. 

6.  The  Mosaic  law  declares,  Thou 
shalt  not  kill.  This  law  may  be 
violated,  but  terrible  consequences 
assuredly  follow. 

William  II  and  his  trained  cap- 
tains have  taught  organized  killing 
by  armed  men  and  have  trained 
men  for  this  purpose — not  for  de- 
fense, but  for  offense.  They  have 
taught  murder  for  profit,  for  an- 
nexation, for  indemnity,  for  pillage, 
for  robbery,  and  have  committed  all 
of  these  and  other  crimes  as  a  se- 
quence of  the  leadership  of  William 
II.  The  evil  consequences  for  the 
wholesale  violation  of  this  law  are 
flowing  in  a  flood  to  humiliate  and 
distress  the  German  people  with 
merited  punishment.  All  the  world 

[7] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

is  in  arms  against  them  for  these 
crimes.  God's  moral  law  brings  cer- 
tain punishment  on  the  criminal. 

7.  The   Mosaic   law   says,   Thou 
shalt  not  commit  adultery.    This  law 
may  be  violated,  but  under  the  laws 
of  God  evil  consequences  follow,  spir- 
itual degradation,  moral  perversion, 
loss  of  dignity,  disgrace. 

8.  The  Mosaic  law  declares,  Thou 
shalt  not  steal.     This  wise  human 
statute  is  often  violated  by  foolish 
men   who   think   to   improve   their 
property    rights    by    stealing,    and 
under  the  law  of  God  evil  conse- 
quences ensue  with  certainty,  wheth- 
er the  man  be  detected  by  men  or 
not,   and  neither  men  nor  nations 
can  disregard  this  law  without  pay- 
ing the  penalties.     Under  German 
leadership  the  German  forces  have 
stolen  all  they  could  in  Belgium  and 

[8] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

northern  France.  Its  ally,  the  Aus- 
trians,  have  stolen  everything  avail- 
able in  Serbia,  the  Turks  have  killed 
and  robbed  and  stolen  the  property 
of  the  Armenians,  but  no  man  will 
deny  that  under  the  majestic  laws 
of  God  the  evil  consequences  of 
these  acts  will  be  in  due  time  visited 
upon  the  criminals. 

The  world  is  marching  upon  the 
criminals,  who  are  beginning  to  plead 
for  peace,  and  no  man  dare  trust 
them.  There  can  be  no  peace  until 
reparation  is  fully  provided  for. 

9.  The  law  of  Moses  says,  Thou 
shalt  not  bear  false  witness,  and 
this  Commandment  may  be  vio- 
lated by  man.  Evil  results  always 
follow  the  sin  and  exemplify  the 
moral  laws  of  God. 

On  the  most  gigantic  scale  in  the 
history  of  the  world  German  leader- 

[9] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

ship  has  committed  this  crime  in  a 
world-wide  propaganda  to  embroil 
all  nations,  internally  and  externally, 
by  skilful  falsehoods.  The  evidences 
of  this  criminal  conduct  have  been 
gathered  from  the  ends  of  the  earth, 
from  the  South  and  Central  Amer- 
ican Republics;  from  Mexico,  the 
United  States;  from  Japan,  China, 
and  India;  from  Siberia;  from  Egypt, 
South  Africa,  North  Africa;  from 
Ireland;  and  above  all  through  the 
European  states,  where  these  fiends 
incarnate  have  by  false  witness  been 
building  the  fires  with  which  to 
consume  mankind. 

William  II  and  his  captains  have 
violated  the  ninth  Commandment 
most  abundantly,  but  they  are  merely 
exemplifying  the  laws  of  God,  which 
will  inflict  certain  punishment  for 
these  crimes  against  the  truth  of  God. 

[10] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

All  the  world  is  marching  on  Ber- 
lin to  punish  this  arch  fiend  and 
his  captains,  whom  President  Wilson, 
with  the  approval  of  the  whole  world, 
has  described  as  "without  honor" 
and  "incapable  of  covenanted  peace." 

10.  The  law  of  Moses  commands 
that  men  shall  not  covet  the  prop- 
erty of  others. 

The  Hohenzollerns  and  the  Haps- 
burgs  illustrate  the  perverted  in- 
breeding of  human  beings  by  families 
to  intensify  the  evil  trait  of  covetous- 
ness  to  the  highest  degree.  They 
marry  and  they  are  given  in  mar- 
riage in  covetousness,  without  love, 
merely  to  enlarge  their  own  powers 
and  their  own  acquisitions.  Every 
step  of  William  II  since  his  birth 
and  conscious  life  has  been  guided 
by  covetousness,  coveting  power 
and  coveting  property;  he  dreamed 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

dreams  of  co vetousness ;  he  coveted 
the  world;  he  desired  to  exceed  Alex- 
ander the  Great,  who  wept  because 
there  were  no  more  worlds  to  con- 
quer. He  laid  his  plans  from  the  day 
he  assumed  power  until  August,  1914, 
to  seize  the  property  and  the  territory 
of  neighboring  people  and  force  them 
by  the  sword  to  pay  tribute  to  him. 
He  violated  the  Mosaic  law,  but  he 
illustrates  the  law  of  God,  under 
which  evil  consequences  flow  from 
covetousness.  All  the  world  is  march- 
ing on  Berlin,  to  inflict  upon  William 
II  and  his  captains  and  his  follow- 
ers the  just  penalties  for  the  viola- 
tion of  the  human  commandments 
which  they  have  broken. 

They  have  violated  all  the  laws 
of  nations;  they  have  treated  their 
solemn  pledges  with  other  nations 
in  treaties  as  "scraps  of  paper" 

[12] 


IN    THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

until  no  man  could  believe  any  prom- 
ise or  any  oath  emanating  from  them. 

They  are  incapable  of  covenanted 
peace  and  can  be  dealt  with  only 
upon  the  basis  of  "unconditional 
surrender"  and  a  dictated  peace. 

They  have  taught  the  doctrine 
that  "might  makes  right";  that 
right  does  not  make  might;  that 
God  does  not  speak  to  men  through 
the  conscience  and  does  not  tell 
men  what  is  right  and  what  is  wrong 
and  does  not  punish  the  powerful 
or  rich  for  wrong-doing;  they  have 
led  the  German  people  astray;  they 
have  violated  all  the  commandments 
of  men,  but  they  are  merely  exem- 
plifying the  laws  of  God  which  visit 
evil  consequences  on  those  who  dis- 
regard the  moral  law. 

The  laws  of  God  are  inconceivably 
majestic.  They  cannot  be  violated 

[13] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

in  the  most  minute  particular  by 
mice  or  men  or  planets.  This  war 
with  its  afflictions  and  sorrows  will 
prove  an  infinite  blessing  to  man- 
kind, by  teaching  men  that  they 
cannot  violate  the  laws  of  God,  but 
that  the  whole  human  family  is 
bound  together  and  must  pay  the 
penalty  for  human  wrong-doing;  that 
RIGHT  must  be  practised,  taught,  and 
enforced  throughout  the  earth.  Right 
involves  justice,  humanity,  liberty, 
mercy,  and  it  is  best  secured  by 
Popular  Government  under  the 
mechanism  by  which  the  Sover- 
eignty of  the  Majority  may  be  ex- 
ercised. 

If  man  were  an  automaton  and 
had  no  liberty  of  choice,  he  could 
not  rise  to  the  level  of  a  high  per- 
sonal spiritual  life  in  which  all  nor- 
mal men  believe.  The  law  of  God 

[14] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN    WAR? 

gives  liberty  to  men,  the  divine 
right  to  choose  between  good  and 
evil,  but  neither  saint  nor  sinner 
can  disregard  the  laws  of  God  with 
impunity,  whether  material  or  moral. 
He  can  neither  put  his  hand  in  the 
fire  nor  lie  without  immediate  evil 
consequences.  Thus  is  man  taught 
not  to  lie  and  not  to  put  his  hand 
in  the  fire.  The  laws  of  God  are  the 
laws  of  cause  and  effect  rightly  in- 
terpreted. 

The  European  war  has  been 
brought  about  through  the  natural 
processes  of  cause  and  effect, 

THROUGH  THE  DEFECTS  OF  THE 
STRUCTURE  OF  GOVERNMENT  in  PrUS- 

sia,  Germany,  Austria,  and  the  frailty 
of  THE  FEW  in  administering  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  government  uncon- 
trolled by  the  wisdom  and  justice  of 
THE  PEOPLE.  The  war  was  unavoid- 

[15] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

able  when  the  power  to  prepare  for 
war  and  to  declare  war  became  vested 
in  the  hands  of  a  Kaiser  who  had 
the  vanity,  the  ambition,  and  the 
folly  to  believe  he  could  successfully 
conquer  the  world,  and  the  insolence 
and  wickedness  to  attempt  it,  and  a 
subservient  people  to  follow  and  sup- 
port his  foolish  ambition. 

If  the  German  People  had  been 
sovereign,  instead  of  the  vainglorious 
Kaiser,  there  would  have  been  no 
war.  The  German  Constitution  per- 
mitted the  Kaiser  to  declare  war 
FOR  DEFENSE,  and  he  made  a  war  FOR 
OFFENSE  under  the  false  pretense  OF 
DEFENSE,  and  no  man  was  strong 
enough  to  prevent  his  unspeakably 
wicked  action. 

If  sovereignty  had  been  vested  in 
the  People  it  could  not  have  hap- 
pened. 

[16] 


IN    THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

THE  DIRECT  CAUSE  OF  THE  EUROPEAN 
WAR 

Autocracy  vs.  Democracy 

Before  the  printing-press  had  be- 
come of  great  force,  before  the  pub- 
lic school  and  the  general  education 
of  the  people  had  become  powerful, 
there  had  developed  in  Europe  an 
"imperial  Government"  claiming  to 
govern  its  subjects,  the  people,  "by 
divine  right."  These  Governments 
were  headed  by  the  Hohenzollerns, 
the  Hapsburgs,  the  Romanoffs, 
the  Bourbons  (AUTOCRACIES),  who 
swore  in  the  Secret  Treaty  of  Verona 
a  covenant  of  hostility  to  all  repre- 
sentative governments  (DEMOCRA- 
CIES) and  against  the  education  of 
the  people  and  the  freedom  of  the 
press. 

[17] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

These  Autocratic  Governments 
were  of  necessity  selfish,  corrupt, 
arrogant. 

To  the  throne  became  attached 
every  selfish  interest,  every  duke, 
count,  baron,  and  junker  who  could 
profit  himself;  every  commercial  and 
financial  interest  that  could  profit 
commercially  and  financially  by  sup- 
porting the  throne. 

This  system  enabled  THE  FEW  to 
profit  out  of  the  proceeds  of  the 
labor  of  the  great  masses  of  the 
people,  governed  as  "SUBJECTS,"  and 
led  the  autocrats  to  prey  on  the 
"SUBJECT"  people  and  to  conspire 
to  keep  them  in  ignorance,  poverty, 
and  weakness. 

As  the  printing-press  developed 
and  the  great  mass  of  the  people  in- 
creased in  knowledge,  they  discov- 
ered the  interesting  fact  that  a  large 

[18] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

part  of  the  proceeds  of  their  labor 
was  taken  over  by  their  rulers,  who 
lived  in  great  luxury  and  power, 
while  the  "SUBJECT"  people  re- 
mained abjectly  poor  and  subjected 
to  ignorance,  to  physical  exposure, 
and  to  moral  and  ethical  decadence. 

The  people,  emerging  from  igno- 
rance, finally  revolted  in  France  in 
the  French  Revolution  against  ab- 
solute monarchy,  and  tried  to  estab- 
lish popular  government  by  the  over- 
throw of  the  monarchy.  They  were 
not  yet  fully  prepared  by  education 
for  self-government,  and  went  to 
great  excesses.  Napoleon  Bonaparte 
succeeded  in  seizing  the  military 
powers  of  the  French  people  and, 
seduced  by  the  covetousness  of 
wealth  and  power,  undertook  to 
make  himself  lord  over  all  Europe. 

It  resulted,  of  course,  in  Waterloo 

[19] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

(1815),  but  it  also  resulted  in  a 
solemn  warning  to  kings  in  Europe 
that  they  must  not  disregard  too 
far  the  rights  of  the  people. 

THE  HOLY  ALLIANCE  (of  Autocracies) 

In  1815  Alexander  I  of  Russia, 
head  of  the  Romanoffs,  Francis  Jo- 
seph of  Austria,  head  of  the  Haps- 
burgs,  Frederick  William  of  Prussia, 
head  of  the  Hohenzollerns,  admon- 
ished by  Napoleon's  end,  entered 
into  an  astonishing  treaty  called  the 
treaty  of  the  "Holy  Alliance"  at  the 
instance  of  Alexander  I  of  Russia 
(September  26,  1815).  This  hypo- 
critical treaty  was  nothing  more  nor 
less  than  a  self-serving  declaration 
of  Christian  virtue  by  the  three  sig- 
natory monarchs. 

They  declared  themselves  in  favor 

[20] 


IN    THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

of  the  Christian  religion;  that  they 
were  the  servants  of  God;  that  they 
held  their  powers  for  the  benefit  of 
the  people;  that  they  were  honor 
bound  to  observe  the  interests  of 
the  people  as  the  chief  object  of 
their  reign;  that  they  should  be 
regarded  as  fathers  of  three  great 
families  whose  interests  required 
them  to  be  at  peace  with  each  other 
and  to  live  in  accordance  with  the 
humane  doctrines  of  Christ. 

Nothing  could  have  been  finer 
than  such  a  conception  of  the  rela- 
tion of  RULERS  to  the  "SUBJECT" 
people,  and  if  they  had  really  lived 
up  to  the  high  measure  of  these 
principles  Europe  might  have  had 
continued  peace,  happiness,  and  pros- 
perity in  all  human  probability.  The 
fatal  defect  was  that  it  was  not 
at  heart  sincere;  it  was  merely  a 

[21] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

piece  of  camouflage  to  appease  the 
people  and  prevent  the  repetition 
of  the  dreaded  French  Revolution. 
Each  of  these  monarchies  retained  in 
its  own  hands  the  absolute  control 
of  the  army  and  navy,  the  law-mak- 
ing and  law-executing  power,  the 
right  of  taxing  the  people  and  ex- 
pending the  taxes  as  it  saw  fit.  Any 
individual  citizen  asserting  the  right 
to  express  his  own  opinion  or  to 
enjoy  liberty,  or  demanding  that  the 
people  should  enjoy  a  larger  part  of 
the  proceeds  of  the  labor  of  the  peo- 
ple, was  subject  to  arrest,  to  prison, 
to  court  martial,  to  exile  in  Siberia, 
to  sudden  death. 

THE   SECRET   TREATY   OF  VERONA 

The  insincerity  of  the  treaty  of 
the  "Holy  Alliance"  was  completely 

[22] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

demonstrated  by  the  secret  treaty 
of  Verona  of  1822,  drawn  by  Prince 
Metternich  of  Austria  as  an  amend- 
ment to  that  treaty;  the  first  two 
articles  of  which  are  as  follows: 

"ARTICLE  I. — The  high  contracting  pow- 
ers  being  convinced   that   the   system  of 

REPRESENTATIVE  GOVERNMENT  [DemOCracyl 

is  equally  as  INCOMPATIBLE  with  the  MON- 
ARCHICAL PRINCIPLES  [Autocracy]  as  the 
maxim  of  the  SOVEREIGNTY  OF  THE  PEOPLE 
[Democracy]  with  the  DIVINE  RIGHT  [Autoc- 
racy], engage  mutually,  in  the  most  SOLEMN 
manner,  to  use  all  their  efforts  TO  PUT  AN 
END  TO  [Democracy]  THE  SYSTEM  OF  REPRE- 
SENTATIVE GOVERNMENTS,  in  WHATEVER 
COUNTRY  IT  MAY  EXIST  in  Europe,  and  to 
PREVENT  ITS  [Democracy]  BEING  INTRO- 
DUCED IN  THOSE  COUNTRIES  WHERE  IT  13 
NOT  YET  KNOWN. 

"ARTICLE  II. — As  it  cannot  be  doubted 

that  THE  LIBERTY  OF  THE  PRESS  IS  THE 
MOST  POWERFUL  MEANS  USED  BY  THE  PRE- 
TENDED SUPPORTERS  OF  THE  RIGHTS  OF  NA- 

[23] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

TIONS  [Democracy]  TO  THE  DETRIMENT  OP 
THOSE  PRINCES  [Autocracy],  the  high  con- 
tracting parties  promise  reciprocally  to 
adopt  all  proper  measures  TO  SUPPRESS  IT, 
[The  Liberty  of  the  Press]  NOT  ONLY  IN 

THEIR  OWN  STATES,  BUT  ALSO  IN  THE  REST 

OF  EUROPE."  (See  Congressional  Record, 
April  20,  1910,  page  6781.) 

It  will  here  be  observed  that  these 
absolute  monarchies  who  in  the 
treaty  of  the  "Holy  Alliance"  had 
pledged  themselves 

"To  take  for  their  sole  guide  the  precepts 
of  their  holy  religion  the  Saviour  taught, 
namely:  the  precepts  of  justice,  Christian 
charity,  peace, " 

and  who  had  pledged  themselves 
in  this  treaty  of  the  "Holy  Alli- 
ance" 

"By  unalterable  good-will  and  mutual  af- 
fection with  which  they  ought  to  be  ani- 

F24] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

mated,  to  consider  themselves  all  as  mem- 
bers of  one  and  the  same  Christian  nation; 
the  three  allied  princes  looking  on  them- 
selves as  merely  DELEGATED  BY  PROVIDENCE 
TO  GOVERN  three  branches  of  the  one  fam- 
ily, namely  Austria,  Prussia,  and  Russia . 
Thus  confessing  that  the  Christian  world, 
of  which  they  and  their  people  formed  a 
part,  has  in  reality  no  other  Sovereign  than 
Him  to  whom  alone  power  really  belongs, 
because  in  Him  alone  are  found  all  of  the 
treasures  of  love,  science,  and  infinite  wis- 
dom,— that  is  to  say,  God,  Our  Divine 
Saviour,  The  Word  of  the  Most  High,  The 
Word  of  Life"— 

are  now  discovered  deliberately  and 
SOLEMNLY  engaging  to  REFUSE  TO 

THEIR    OWN    PEOPLE    ANY    RIGHT    OF 

REPRESENTATION  in  a  Government 
supported  by  the  taxes  and  by  the 
labors  and  sacrifices  of  the  people 
themselves. 
Not  only  did  they  pledge  them- 

[25] 


WHERE   IS    GOD 

selves  that  the  people  should  not 
have  any  right  to  a  voice  in  their 
own  government,  but  that  they 
should  be  continued  to  be  held  as 
subjects  (in  fact,  as  political  slaves) ; 
but  they  went  much  further — they 
pledged  themselves  not  to  permit 
them  any  liberty  of  expressing  their 
opinions  through  the  printing-press, 
and  pledged  themselves  to  suppress 
the  liberty  of  the  press  so  as  to  keep 
the  people  in  ignorance  of  their 
rights,  and  to  enable  them  by  means 
of  a  controlled  press  to  instruct  the 
people  falsely  against  their  own  in- 
terests. 

They  solemnly  covenanted  in  the 
SECRET  treaty  of  Verona,  which  they 
wisely  kept  SECRET,  that  they  would 
hold  the  people  in  governmental 
slavery  in  flat  violation  of  the  pre- 
cepts of  the  holy  religion  the  Saviour 

[26] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

taught,  namely:  "The  precepts  of 
justice,  Christian  charity,  peace," 
which  they  had  solemnly  pledged 
themselves  to  uphold  in  the  treaty 
of  the  "Holy  Alliance"  "to  take  for 
their  sole  guide." 

They  proved  themselves  by  the 
secret  treaty  of  Verona  to  be  organ- 
ized liars,  robbers,  murderers.  They 
lied  to  all  of  the  world  over  their 
own  signatures  in  pretending  to  be 
guided  by  the  principles  of  Christ,  in 
pretending  to  be  guided  by  charity 
and  peace  and  brotherly  love.  While 
these  self-serving  princes  falsely  pre- 
tended to  be  the  representatives  of 
Christ  on  earth,  they  were  permitting 
their  own  subjects  to  be  robbed,  to 
be  kept  in  ignorance,  and  in  the 
secret  treaty  of  Verona  pledged  them- 
selves not  to  permit  the  people,  who 
were  becoming  increasingly  intelli- 

[27] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 

gent,  to  have  any  part  or  voice  in 
their  own  self-government.  They 
did  not  permit  them  the  right  of 
petition,  or  any  of  the  great  rights 
of  life,  of  liberty,  of  the  pursuit  of 
happiness,  or  the  means  by  which 
these  rights  are  safeguarded  through 
adequate,  orderly  process  of  law. 
They  closed  the  door  to  the  people 
of  discussing  their  affairs  in  public 
through  a  free  press,  because  they 
knew  that  the  truth  was  mighty 
and  would  prevail,  and  THEY 

WERE  ENGAGED  IN  A  CONSPIRACY 
TO  PREVENT  THE  TRUTH  BEING 
HEARD,  and  TO  DESTROY  ALL  DE- 
MOCRACIES. 

Christ  taught, 

"If  ye  continue  in  my  word,  then  are  ye 
my  disciples  indeed;   and  YE  SHALL  KNOW 

THE  TRUTH,  AND  THE  TRUTH  SHALL  MAKE 

YOU  FREE." 

[28] 


IN    THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

But  these  self -serving  monarchies 
did  not  intend  to  permit  the  people 
to  be  free  or  the  truth  to  be  known; 
they  intended  falsehoods  to  be  taught 
to  the  people,  that  the  people  should 
not  be  free,  and  fully  carried  out 
this  intent  from  1822  to  1918.  In 
the  secret  treaty  of  Verona  they 
pledged  themselves  to  furnish  20,- 
000,000  francs  per  annum  to  enable 
Louis  XVIII,  the  head  of  the  Bour- 
bons, to  make  war  on  the  Spanish 

people    IN    ORDER    TO    ESTABLISH    IN 

SPAIN  an  ABSOLUTE  monarchy,  in 
lieu  of  a  LIMITED  monarchy  ob- 
tained by  the  people  of  Spain  by 
revolution  as  a  means  of  protecting 
themselves  against  the  unjust  ex- 
actions of  an  absolute  monarchy. 
They  waged  war  on  and  KILLED 

THE  UNOFFENDING  SPANISH  PEOPLE, 

with  fire  and  sword,  and  compelled 

[29] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

them  to  yield  to  the  absolute  dic- 
tation of  the  Spanish  King,  the  same 
king  who  had  been  governing  under 
a  Constitution  forced  upon  the  crown 
by  the  people. 

This  same  so-called  "Holy  Al- 
liance" immediately  sent  an  army  of 
Austrians  into  Italy  and  murdered 

and     SLAUGHTERED     THE    ITALIAN 

PEOPLE  for  their  own  pretended 
"holy  and  Christian  purposes,"  and 
compelled  the  unhappy  people  of 
Italy  to  give  up  the  limited  monarchy 
which  they  had  by  revolution  forced 
upon  the  King  of  Italy,  and  they  es- 
tablished an  absolute  monarchy  in 
Italy  by  military  violence,  with  the 
same  king  on  the  throne,  IN  ORDER 

TO  ESTABLISH  MORE  STRONGLY  AU- 
TOCRACY IN  EUROPE,  AND  TO  WEAKEN 
THE  GROWING  TENDENCY  TOWARD 

DEMOCRACY. 

[80] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

These  detestable  men,  the  heads 
of  the  families  of  the  Romanoffs, 
Hohenzollerns,  Hapsburgs,  and  Bour- 
bons, then  proposed  to  send  their 
trained  armies  and  navies  to  the 
Western  Hemisphere  for  the  purpose, 
as  they  said,  of  "reducing  the  colo- 
nies of  Spain  and  Portugal  on  the 
Western  Hemisphere,'*  and  thus 
strangling  all  representative  govern- 
ments (Democracies)  at  their  birth  in 
the  two  Americas.  They  proposed, by 
necessary  implication,  the  MURDER  OF 

THE  PEOPLE   IN  BRAZIL  and   IN  THE 

ARGENTINE  and  IN  CHILE  and  IN 
MEXICO,  for  example,  not  for  the 
"holy  Christian  purpose"  of  pro- 
moting the  doctrines  of  Christ,  but 
for  the  unholy  purpose  of  promoting 
their  own  selfish  powers,  the  powers 
of  autocracy. 

The  blasphemous  hypocrisy  of  the 

[31] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

treaty  of  the  "Holy  Alliance"  has 
never  been  surpassed  on  earth. 

THE  MONROE   DOCTRINE 

While  they  were  contemplating 
this  attack  on  America,  the  Prime 
Minister  of  Great  Britain,  Lord  Can- 
ning, notified  the  detestable  Hohen- 
zollern-Hapsburg  conspiracy  of  the 
"Holy  Alliance"  that  Great  Britain 
would  oppose  such  an  assault  on  the 
former  colonies  of  Spain  and  Portu- 
gal. 

It  should  be  remembered  that 
Great  Britain,  though  a  limited  mon- 
archy, was  already,  in  1822,  a  gov- 
ernment fairly  representative  of  the 
British  people,  loving  liberty  and 
justice,  and  that  Great  Britain  had 
learned  in  the  wars  of  1776  and  1812 
to  abandon  the  doctrine  of  the  Ger- 

[32] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

man-bred  George  III  of  Hanover, 
that "  Might  Makes  Right,"  and  that 
Great  Britain  had  at  that  time 
changed  her  policy  toward  her  own 
colonies,  having  learned  in  Amer- 
ica that  "RIGHT  MAKES  MIGHT." 

President  Monroe,  advised  by 
Great  Britain  of  the  conspiracy  of  the 
houses  of  Hohenzollern  and  Haps- 
burg  to  invade  the  liberties  of  North 
and  South  America,  sent  his  message 
to  Congress  in  December,  1823,  in 
which  he  announced  the  Monroe 
Doctrine  in  the  following  words: 

"!T  is  IMPOSSIBLE  that  THE  ALLIED  POWERS 

should  EXTEND  THEIR  POLITICAL  SYSTEM 
TO  ANY  PORTION  OF  EITHER  CONTINENT 
WITHOUT  ENDANGERING  OUR  PEACE  AND 

HAPPINESS;  nor  can  any  one  believe  that 
our  southern  brethren,  if  left  to  themselves, 
would  adopt  it  of  their  own  accord.  It  is 
equally  impossible,  therefore,  that  we  should 

[33] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

behold  such  interposition  in  any  form  with 
indifference." 

"With  the  existing  colonies  or  depend- 
encies of  any  European  power  we  have  not 
interfered  and  shall  not  interfere.  But 
with  the  Governments  who  have  declared 
their  independence  and  maintained  it,  and 
whose  independence  we  have,  on  great  con- 
sideration and  just  principles,  acknowl- 
edged, we  could  not  view  any  interposition 
for  the  purpose  of  oppressing  them  or  con- 
trolling in  any  other  manner  their  destiny 
by  any  European  power  in  any  other  light 
than  as  the  manifestation  of  an  unfriendly 
disposition  toward  the  United  States." 

This  action  of  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States  checked  the  so- 
called  "Holy  Alliance"  and  pre- 
vented the  covetous  ambition  of  the 
Hohenzollerns  and  Hapsburgs  and 
their  un-"holy"  associates  from  de- 
stroying the  democracies  of  the 
Western  Hemisphere. 

[34] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN    WAR? 

The  Governments  of  the  "Holy 
Alliance,"  pretending  to  represent 
Christ  on  earth,  absolutely  ignored 
the  fundamentals  of  the  doctrine  of 
Christ — to  love  God  and  to  love 
their  neighbor  as  themselves,  to  obey 
the  Commandments,  not  to  lie,  steal, 
murder,  covet.  They  violated  all 
of  these  laws.  They  permitted  them 
to  be  violated.  Their  courts  became 
corrupt  with  wickedness  and  intrigue 
from  the  unavoidable  evil  conse- 
quences which  flow  from  the  viola- 
tion of  the  laws  of  morality  and 
righteousness. 

The  Romanoffs  have  come  to  their 
merited  reward. 

The  Bourbons  came  to  their  de- 
served end. 

The  Hohenzollerns  and  the  Haps- 
burgs  cannot  last  another  year.  It 
is  the  law  of  cause  and  effect,  and 

[35] 


WHERE    IS  -GOD 

the    necessary    consequence    which 

must  ensue  under  the  immutable  laws 

of  God. 

President  Monroe  declared: 

"It  is  impossible  that  the  Allied 

Powers  [Prussia  and  Austria]  SHOULD 

EXTEND     THEIR     POLITICAL     SYSTEM 

[of  Autocracy]  to  any  portion  of 
either  Continent  [of  America]  with- 
out endangering  our  peace  and  hap- 
piness" (as  Democracies). 

The  Autocratic  "system"  has  en- 
dangered the  peace  and  happiness  of 
all  Europe  and  visited  a  frightful 
penalty  on  the  whole  world. 

The  Hohenzollerns  and  Hapsburgs 
were  permitted  by  the  enfeebled 
German  and  Austrian  people  to 
maintain  the  doctrine  of  "divine 
right"  in  Prussia  and  Austria. 

The  Hohenzollerns  and  Hapsburgs 
never  did  recognize  the  Monroe 

[36] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN   WAR? 

Doctrine.  They  secretly  denounced 
it.  They  were  back  of  the  attempt 
to  establish  a  monarchy  under  Maxi- 
milian in  Mexico  in  1866,  which  the 
United  States  defeated. 

William  II  attempted  to  establish 
a  footing  in  Venezuela,  which  the 
United  States  prevented. 

It  was  a  Hohenzollern  Admiral 
(1898)  who  attempted  to  block  Ad- 
miral Dewey  in  Manila  Bay,  which 
was  prevented  by  Dewey  with  the 
co-operation  of  a  British  admiral. 

William  II  followed  the  wicked  de- 
signs of  the  "Holy  Alliance"  and 
of  the  secret  treaty  of  Verona.  He 
controlled  the  kindergartens,  the 
gymnasiums,  the  high  schools,  the 
universities,  the  pulpits,  the  press, 
the  magazines,  the  instruction  of  the 
people.  He  taught  them  the  false 
doctrine  that  "Might  Makes  Right." 

[37] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

The  false  doctrine  that  every  energy 
should  be  put  into  the  development 
of  a  highly  organized  army  kept 
in  perfect  fighting  condition  at  all 
times;  that  war  could  and  should 
be  made  profitable;  that  war  was 
beneficial  to  nations ;  that  wars  could 
be  made  with  such  vigor  as  to  be 
short  as  well  as  profitable;  that  the 
German  people  were  entitled  to  es- 
tablish dominion  over  all  of  the 
earth.  He  had  the  German  people 
taught  to  sing  "Hymns  of  Hate" 
and  "Deutschland  iiber  Alles";  he 
had  the  young  men  taught  to  fight 
duels;  he  had  his  young  officers  of 
the  navy  and  the  army  drink  to  the 
mysterious  "Der  Tag,"  "The  Day," 
when  Germany  would  draw  its  con- 
quering sword  and  master  the  earth. 
He  had  his  military  men  steep 
themselves  in  the  literature  of  the 

[38] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

bloodiest  practises  of  war,  to  harden 
their  hearts,  and  to  believe  that  to 
make  war  fearful  was  to  make  war 
short  and  victorious.  He  had  the 
German  people  taught  that  terror- 
ism was  justified.  In  order  to  have 
his  soldiers  disregard  the  prompt- 
ings of  conscience,  he  had  them 
taught  that  unless  they  made  war 
terrible  they  would  themselves  be 
the  victims  of  crucifixion  and  mur- 
der by  their  enemies.  He  had  the 
commercial  and  financial  captains 
taught  that  the  treasures  of  all  of 
the  world  would  lie  at  their  feet 
when  the  German  victorious  armies 
seized  Paris  in  three  weeks;  then 
captured  Russia;  then  controlled 
Europe;  then  mastered  Great  Bri- 
tain and  "levied  tribute  upon  Amer- 


ica." 


He  was  convinced  that  "Might 

[39J 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

Made  Right."  He  argued  from 
cause  and  effect  in  the  material 
world  and  did  not  see  the  cause 
and  effect  of  the  moral  and  spiritual 
world  that  controls  men.  "Right 
Makes  Might"  in  the  moral  world, 
and  material  might  opposing  itself 
to  spiritual  right  is  ultimately  hum-* 
bled  to  the  dust. 

William  II,  pretending  to  respect 
the  ethical  and  moral  law,  had  the 
German  people  taught  the  doctrine 
of  the  survival  of  the  fittest,  the  sur- 
vival of  the  strongest,  without  hav- 
ing the  wisdom  to  know  that  They 
Are  Fittest  and  Strongest  Who  Love 
the  Moral  and  Ethical  Law,  the  law 
of  justice  and  humanity,  and  follow 
it  with  courage. 

By  violating  these  laws  and  threat- 
ening the  peace  of  mankind  he  has 
marshaled  against  the  German  people 

[40] 


IN    THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

twenty-two  nations,  including  all  of 
the  great  nations  of  the  earth,  and 
brought  upon  himself  the  destruc- 
tion of  his  own  dynasty,  the  physical 
destruction  of  millions  of  the  German 
people,  the  moral  degradation  of 
Germany.  He  has  ignored  the  im- 
mutable moral  laws  and  is  illus- 
trating the  evil  consequences  which 
flow  from  violating  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments. 

William  II  formed  the  policy  of 
storing  up  gigantic  supplies  of  muni- 
tions of  war. 

He  built  up  the  railroads  of  Ger- 
many to  serve  war  purposes.  He 
built  up  gigantic  factories  for  the 
making  of  steel  and  powder  and  war 
munitions.  He  diligently  and  vigor- 
ously prepared  for  war,  while  he 
continually  announced  through  the 
press  that  he  was  the  great  protector 

[41] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

of  the  peace  of  Europe.  While  he 
continually  represented  himself  as  in 
favor  of  peace,  he  was  secretly  pre- 
paring for  war,  in  imitation  of  Fred- 
erick II,  who  practised  the  same 
policy  before  he  seized  Silesia.  When 
William  II  was  finally  completely 
ready  for  war,  he  called  together 
the  military,  industrial,  and  financial 
captains  of  war  at  a  meeting  at  Pots- 
dam on  July  5,  1914,  to  ascertain  if 
they  were  all  ready. 

His  war  lords  were  ready.  His 
financial  lords  requested  two  weeks 
in  which  to  sell  their  foreign  se- 
curities; and  suddenly  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  reflected  the  sale  of 
hundreds  of  millions  of  German-held 
stocks  and  bonds.  The  evidence  of 
the  guilty  Potsdam  conference  is  now 
thoroughly  well  established. 

We  now  fcnow  that  this  war  had 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

been  in  preparation  by  William  II 
for  many  years. 

The  evidence  is  now  overwhelm- 
ingly complete  that  William  II  had 
been  deliberately  planning  this  war 
for  the  purpose  of  making  his  name 
more  illustrious  than  any  Emperor 
in  the  history  of  the  world. 

The  crime  of  William  II  will  go 
down  as  the  most  dastardly  in  the 
history  of  mankind,  as  having  pro- 
voked the  slaughter  of  a  larger  num- 
ber of  human  beings  than  any  war 
in  history. 

The  invasion  of  Serbia  is  now 
known  to  have  been  a  mere  pre- 
tense and  a  means  of  starting  the 
war  in  such  a  way  that  France  and 
Russia  could  be  struck  by  the  Ger- 
man armies  unawares  and  at  the 
same  time  still  make  it  possible  to 
pretend  at  home  and  abroad  that 

[43] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

* 

the  German  armies  were  directed 
by  William  II  as  a  means  of  protect- 
ing Germany  from  the  assault  of  her 
enemies. 

William  II  ostentatiously  declared 
at  the  beginning  of  the  war  that 
the  sword  was  forced  into  his  hands 
— a  wilful  falsehood,  deliberately  in- 
vented as  a  means  of  protecting  him- 
self against  the  condemnation  of  the 
moral  elements  of  Germany  and  of 
the  neutral  nations  of  the  world. 

It  was  not  known  at  the  beginning 
of  the  war  what  is  known  now — 
that  William  II  had  been  spending 
hundreds  of  millions  of  dollars 
(earned  by  the  industry  and  labor 
of  the  German  people)  for  the  pur- 
pose of  embroiling  the  nations  of 
the  whole  world  and  of  preventing 
them  from  interfering  with  William 
II  in  pursuit  of  his  ambition  to 

[44] 


IN   THE   EUROPEAN    WAR? 

dominate  Europe  and  to  dominate 
the  world.  Convincing  evidence  has 
now  been  secured  showing  his  con- 
spiracy to  stir  up  revolt  in  Ireland, 
in  India,  in  Egypt,  in  South  Africa; 
to  stir  up  Mexico,  the  United  States, 
Japan,  China,  and  everywhere  sow 
sedition,  treason,  revolution,  and 
war. 

It  is  now  known  that  he  was  carry- 
ing on  a  world-wide  propaganda  to 
teach  war  and  preparedness  to  the 
German  and  Austrian  people,  while 
other  nations  were  taught  unpre- 
paredness  and  pacifism. 

The  Divine  Ruler  of  the  Universe 
is  not  responsible  for  the  European 
war.  The  insane  ambition  of  a  man 
of  commonest  clay  named  William 
Hohenzollern,  and  the  folly  of  the 
German  and  Austrian  people  in  per- 
mitting and  following  such  leader- 

[45] 


WHERE    IS    GOD 

ship,  and  the  ignorance  and  apathy 
of  the  other  great  nations,  are  re- 
sponsible for  the  war. 

It  is  a  costly  lesson. 

It  is  costly  to  the  whole  world. 

It  will  teach  the  whole  world  the 
laws  of  cause  and  effect,  and  that 
the  laws  of  cause  and  effect  are  the 
laws  of  God,  and  that  God  does  not 
interfere  with  the  law  of  gravity, 
of  morals,  or  of  sound  government, 
either  of  which  may  be  illustrated 
by  the  folly  of  saint  or  sinner. 

William  II,  the  arch  criminal  of 
all  ages,  had  been  permitted,  by 
the  moral  and  ethical  decadence  of 
the  German  people,  to  retain  the 
military  powers  of  the  army  and 
navy  of  the  German  people,  which 
he  on  all  occasions  paraded  as  "MY 
army"  and  "MY  navy,"  until  the 
recent  defeats  (October  8,  1918), 

[46] 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

when   he   suddenly   speaks   to    the 
Germans  of  "YOUR  army." 

He  had  been  permitted  to  retain, 
with  his  captains  and  junkers,  the 
legislative  powers  of  the  people  of 
Germany,  control  over  the  execu- 
tive powers  of  the  people  of  Ger- 
many, with  the  power  to  declare 
war,  and  with  no  man  and  no  set 
of  men  strong  enough  to  oppose 
him.  He  had  been  left  by  the  Ger- 
man people  in  a  position  where  he 
could  be  controlled  by  his  own  vain 
ambition  and  by  the  ambitions  of 
his  military  and  naval  war  lords, 
his  junkers  and  covetous  business 
men;  where  he  could  guide  the  poli- 
cies of  Germany  and  of  Austria; 
where  he  could  extend  autocracy  to 
cover  the  Balkans,  Bulgaria,  Turkey; 
where  he  could  threaten  the  peace 
of  all  mankind  by  his  order  of  mobil- 

[47] 


WHERE    IS   GOD 

ization  and  by  his  declaration  of  war 
plunge  Europe  and  the  world  in  the 
bloodiest  conflict  of  all  history. 

With  unspeakable  folly  and  wick- 
edness, he  prepared  "THE  DAY." 

"THE  DAY"  came. 

THE  NIGHT  COMES  also  for  William 
and  his  co-conspirators. 

It  is  the  law  of  cause  and  effect, 
the  law  of  God. 

The  doctrine  of  William  II  that 
"Might  Makes  Right"  is  the  voice 
of  atheism; 

It  is  a  denial  that  there  is  a  living 
God; 

It  is  a  denial  that  conscience  is  a 
guide  for  men; 

It  is  a  denial  that  God  speaks  to 
the  hearts  of  men  and  tells  them  what 
is  right  and  what  is  wrong;  it  is  a 
denial  of  the  primary  doctrine  of  all 
of  the  great  religions  that  men  are 

[48] 


IN    THE    EUROPEAN    WAR? 

spiritual,  that  they  are  the  children 
of  God  and  taught  by  Him. 

The  battle  of  Armageddon  is  on 
to  determine  whether  or  not  God 
reigns  on  earth,  whether  or  not  moral 
and  ethical  laws  shall  stand  on  earth. 
There  can  be  but  one  answer.  It  is 
the  doom  of  William  II  and  of  the 
Governments  which  deny  the  doc- 
trines of  justice,  of  liberty,  of  hu- 
manity, of  righteousness. 

It  is  the  end  of  Autocracy,  the 
triumph  of  Democracy. 

It  means  the  rebirth  of  the  world. 

It  means  a  thousand  years  of 
peace. 

"When  the  war  drum  throbs  no  longer 
And  the  battle-flags  are  furled, 

In  the  parliament  of  man, 
The  federation  of  the  world." 

It  means  that  the  laws  of  God  are 
gloriously  working,  that  men  have 

[49] 


WHERE  IS  GOD 

learned  at  last  by  terrible  suffering 
the  evil  consequences  of  immoral 
conduct,  of  Prussianism,  of  Militar- 
ism, of  Ruling  by  Divine  Right,  of 
the  pernicious  falsehood  that  might 
makes  right. 

They  ought  to  know  now  what  to 
expect  from  the  Rule  of  the  Few 
without  the  Consent  of  the  Governed. 
They  ought  to  know  now  that  good 
consequences  cannot  flow  from  un- 
just, inhumane  military  government. 

They  ought  to  know  now  the  vast 
importance  of  recognizing  the  prin- 
ciples of  Justice,  Liberty  and  Hu- 
manity, and  realize  the  importance 
of  providing  the  mechanism  of  gov- 
ernment so  that  the  Sovereignty  of 
the  People  shall  be  made  always  and 
easily  effective. 

The  laws  of  God  have  been  glori- 
ously vindicated  and  exemplified  and 
men  have  seen  a  wonderful  demon- 

[50] 


IN  THE  EUROPEAN  WAR? 

stration  of  the  evil  consequences  of 
militarism  and  dynastic  ambition,  of 
Ruling  by  Djivine  Right  without  the 
Consent  of  the  Governed,  of  unlimited 
power  in  the  hands  of  the  Few,  and 
that  these  evil  consequences  are  not 
local,  but  are  world-wide. 

The  world  at  last  has  been  taught 
a  terrible  lesson  by  the  laws  of  God. 

Now,  perhaps,  the  world  will  have 
a  world-wide  League  of  Nations 
based  on  Justice  and  Liberty,  recog- 
nizing at  last  the  brotherhood  of  Man 
and  the  Fatherhood  of  God. 

Where  is  God? 

Everywhere!  with  His  glorious 
and  beautiful  laws  working  to  ever- 
lasting perfection,  teaching  at  last 
by  sorrow  the  weakest  and  most 
foolish  of  His  children. 

Where  is  God? 

Let  the  "Battle  Hymn  of  the 
Republic"  answer — 

[51] 


WHERE   IS   GOD 
BATTLE  HYMN  OF  THE  REPUBLIC 


"Mine  eye  hath  seen  the  glory  of  the  coming 

of  the  Lord: 
He  is  trampling  out  the  vintage  where  the 

grapes  of  wrath  are  stored; 
He  hath  loosed  the  fateful  lightning  of  his 
terrible  swift  sword: 

His  truth  is  marching  on. 

"I  have  seen  him  in  the  watch-fires  of  a 

hundred  circling  camps: 
They  have  builded  him  an  altar  in  the 

evening  dews  and  damps; 
I  can  read  his  righteous  sentence  by  the 
dim  and  flaring  lamps, 

His  day  is  marching  on. 

"I  have  read  a  fiery  gospel  writ  in  rows  of 

burnished  steel: 
'As  ye  deal  with  my  contemner,  so  with 

you  my  grace  shall  deal'; 
Let  the  Hero,  born  of  woman,  crush  the 
serpent  with  his  heel, 

Since  God  is  marching  on. 

[52]  , 


IN   THE    EUROPEAN   WAR? 

!He  has  sounded  forth  the  trumpet  that 

shall  never  call  retreat; 
He  is  sifting  out  the  hearts  of  men  before 

his  judgment  seat: 
Oh,  be  swift,  my  soul,  to   answer   him! 

be  jubilant,  my  feet! 

Our  God  is  marching  on. 

'In  the  beauty  of  the  lilies   Christ  was 

born  across  the  sea, 
With  a  glory  in  his  bosom  that  transfigures 

you  and  me; 

As  he  died  to  make  men  holy,  let  us  die 
to  make  men  free, 

While  God  is  marching  on." 

October  10,  1918. 


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